Mad Over Fifties Club

[nungate]

Good evening and a Happy New Year to all members of the Mad Over Fifties Club.
Tonight we may try to keep our proceedings on the quiet side, in total contrast to all our recent festivities. So tonight, our tailcock will be the optimistically named "Summer Breeze" more in hope than expectation of an improvement in our weather.
On the Hot plate tonight, we have a delicious Cottage pie (we had a few spare cottages around the estate so why not?) on the pudding trolley a blast from the past in the shape of a jam roly poly with lashings of custard! Of course we will also have the usual volly vonts, horses doovers and canopies ready for our members.
Owing to adverse weather conditions the bungee will not be in use tonight and we have also decided that the hot tub on the North Tower will also be unavailable. We do have many other delights for our members, the indoor pool is ready for use, and we have installed a smaller hot tub down in the cellars by the pool, for those members who do like to use the hot tub) The games room have a wide array of games and amusements for our members use. Our well stocked library has all the latest magazines and periodicals including the Wheeltappers Gazette! Somewhere up in the gallery the Minstrels are already tuning up the madrigals and fugues and in the ballroom the Tone Deafs are returning with a selections of the Hits of Yesteryear!
Igor has returned from his short holiday relaxed and ready to serve drinks, hide coats and generally be the masterful ancient family retainer! He will be ably assisted by his minion Frank who has returned from Minion School a reformed (we hope) character!
Finally, a quick Thank you to Queenie for taking over last weeks's meeting owing to my indispostion
A warm welcome awaits all who dare enter these portals


carriages at midnight

[DTCwordfan]

Now Igor, you are supposed to say, "Roger" to that request for a Moreish tailcock....

[DaisyNonna]

I am a quarter mile from the coast as the seagulls fly. Main window faces due south. Never realised Bay Windows creaked!

[nungate]

I reckon all windows creak Daisy, I keep thinking ours are leaking! As when the wind blows I fear I hear a constant drip, drip, drip! (Sprung from the fact that the first winter we lived here we discovered the front window was leaking dreadfully! Water everywhere!

[DaisyNonna]

Excellent Igor. So pleased to see that your chains have not been affected by the damp. You positively sparkle.
DT, Wilco would have sufficed.

[Igor61]

My apologies sir DT, but I am unfamiliar with Roger and I am sure I know of no one called Wilco

[ferlew]

Wilco is where you can buy WD40 to keep metalwork nice and shiny :)

[DTCwordfan]

Igor has never heard of Roger Moore, surely not.........

[Igor61]

I believe the Master has a nice stock of that stuff in the workshop, though I prefer Brasso for me chains, brings them up lovely!

Roger Moore? I do not believe I have

[nungate]

Good evening Ferlew, nice to see you, I trust you are well?

[DaisyNonna]

Whether or not there is a rifle this evening I have compiled a list of what will be available in the next day or so.

On the twelfth day of Christmas someone will send to me
12 Chimes of Midnight
11 Villa Players
10 Diet Commandments
9 Pins for Skittling
8 Men a Rowing
7 Dwarfs a Digging
6 Balls an Over
5 Cinque Ports
4 Compass Points
3 Musketeers
2 Jazz duets
And a Cartridge Pen just for me

[nungate]

a most impressive list there Daisy, but surely you do not really intend to raffle off 11 Villa players? Things can't be that bad surely?

[DaisyNonna]

Did you see today's result nun? No wonder Tony is not here.

[nungate]

Haven't seen any of today's results, was it that bad? 'scuse me just popping over to Sky sports news to see ....

[DaisyNonna]

Evening Ferlew. Wilco has some interesting things if you have the time to look. Very good on photo frames.

[DTCwordfan]

In one cold January night
Igor will hear a tapping on his door
And he will have a fright
When he sees the ghost of Roger Moore.

He will invite him in,
He'll have nothing to say
He'll think about that deadly tailcock sin
And how he could go back to that dreaded day.

Igor will take a good long look at Roger Moore
His eyes, his mouth, his body type and see how he has changed
And how his shadow falls on the Towers slatey floor
He'll think back to plans that he had arranged

How they never came to be
And Igor left with nothing but a memory

'Oh Roger, oh Roger!" Igor will cry out
"Whatever happened to us?"
"You know" he will cry out
"It ended when I got run over by that bloody Edinburgh bus"

Then he will fade away, just like a dream
A tender tear will fall down Igor's rough-hewn cheek
He is left nothing but a huge scary scream
To lift Queenie out of her bed, right to the beam

Roger Moore never came
He is just a Towers ghost, long time dead
Just another memory, just another name
And how they wished that they had more tailcock time to spend.

[nungate]

I thought you were talking about 6-0 or something, 2-1 can't be that bad can it? They can concentrate on just the league now, with no distractions
(I try to be optimistic)

[DTCwordfan]

Tony probably would send his apologies; he's involved on a family expedition to get various things sorted out......doubt that he will be back in time.

[Igor61]

oooooh! We have so many ghosts around the Towers that another wouldn't make that much of a difference to me DT sir, might be company for Sir Cum Ference at any rate

[DaisyNonna]

Feeling very isolated tonight. MOFC does not seem to be coming up on latest posts. Perhaps I need more alcohol.

[nungate]

It's a very quiet evening all around Daisy. Perhaps folks are taking a time out after all the recent festivities. Queenie is currently watching Goles, y goles y goles on Sky sports all about the Spanish league so far this season.
Barcelona play tomorrow afternoon, there has been a break in Spanish football over Christmas and the games start this weekend, mind you we have a Copa game on Wednesday (Spanish equivalent of the F.A. Cup)